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Innovations in Delivering Culturally Sensitive Social Work Services - Challenges for Practice and Education (Hardcover)
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Innovations in Delivering Culturally Sensitive Social Work Services - Challenges for Practice and Education (Hardcover)
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Innovations in Delivering Culturally Sensitive Social Work
Services: Challenges for Practice and Education is for human
service professionals and educators who are seeking innovative ways
to make their practice and service delivery more culturally
appropriate and their education and training more relevant. As
Editor Yvonne Asamoah explains, "There has never been a more
critical time for social work practitioners, educators, and policy
makers to critique their programs, service delivery systems, and
curricula for cultural relevance. Apart from federal and state
mandates which require agencies to demonstrate how they are
preparing workers to deliver culturally sensitive services,
demographic shifts and increasing economic hardships are
continually producing a more diverse clientele in need of service.
. . . Being sensitive to the needs of the local community and the
subtle, but significant, ethnic differences within them is critical
and has important implications for training, policy, and
practice."The contributors describe actual models put into practice
in the U.S. and Canada--analyzing the results and debating the
issues of diversity and cultural sensitivity in regard to the
social work profession. Innovations in Delivering Culturally
Sensitive Social Work Services gives you an inside look at
different approaches, programs, and studies, including: an
innovative demonstration project designed to deliver social
services to people from different cultures in Canada an eight-step
communication process model that social work agency supervisors and
training units may use to help workers become more effective
multicultural practitioners a study on the incidents of
misunderstanding between social workers from a Western-oriented
society and those from a non-Western society in terms of culture
shock the results of a statewide survey in Nevada on attitudes of
social workers in relation to diversity, using a modified
Multicultural Counseling Inventory to measure awareness, knowledge,
and skills the four major multicultural issues considered critical
to the delivery of health and mental health, and preventative and
treatment services to Latino clients an examination of the issue of
diversity in the workplace using the university and schools of
social work as examplesOther important contributions in Innovations
in Delivering Culturally Sensitive Social Work Services include a
unique look at the topic of cultural diversity and sensitivity from
a management perspective--introducing you to the concept of the
'globally aware'social work manager. Practical suggestions to
assist you in achieving global awareness are provided through a
"Global Problem Analysis Worksheet" including issues of staffing,
hiring and retention of foreign born staff; service planning and
organization to meet the needs of immigrants, refugees, and other
international populations; staff development; and broader
organizational concerns of information systems and policymaking.
Two other chapters directly relate to the critical issues raised by
Paige in his comprehensive 1986 work on cross-cultural orientation
and applications. These chapters will help you view your own
cross-cultural encounters with both clients and peers in a broader,
theoretical context.
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